Firefox gurus - bookmark help

[Rabrrrrrr]

I've been running a couple different computers for a couple years, and I have some bookmarks on both, and many bookmarks that are on only one computer and not the other.

What I would like to do is to get all my bookmarks from both computers together, so that they are both up to date with each other.

And when I do that, I would also like to have all the duplicates (the few hundreds of booksmarks that are common to both computers) eliminated.

How can I do this?

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. Mozilla or Firefox?

I have a few ideas if you use Firefox.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Whoops - it's Firefox!

Thanks!

Stupid me.

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. Sorry...

I thought I knew a way to do this.. It didn't work out.

Good luck.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Thanks for trying, though!

I appreciate that it gave it a shot.

:yourock:

Thanks!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. I lose my bookmarks on Firefox constantly

I have been thinking of downloading another copy of it.

[Angry Girl]

9. Get your Bookmark Backup extension here...

http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/?addon

Under options, go specify your own directory so that you can also back that up every night (or whatever your backup scheme is). Works like a charm and I back up history and other Firefox stuff as well!

[Breeze54]

6. Try this!

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&numpg=10&id=998

Quick Description

Organize bookmarks with categories, not folders.

Big changes in 0.2.
NEW: Tag browser sidebar and window.

By default,
Bookmark Tags now creates only one folder per tag;
permutation is now a limited option.
Automatic folder organization is now an option
(but still default).
Batch tagging.
Many others; see homepage for details.

USERS OF 0.1, please see for a note about permutation.

ADD ON: DOWNLOAD
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/bookmark_tags/bookmark_tags-0.2.0-fx.xpi

Developer Comments:

Bookmark Tags allows you to easily organize your bookmarks.
Instead of deciding on the one,
appropriate folder to place a bookmark in,
you assign it any number of "tags," or categories,
and let Bookmark Tags organize your bookmarks for you.

And with the tag browser sidebar and window,
instead of hunting for bookmarks through hierarchical folders
and subfolders,
you can browse with tags,
using your categories like a sieve to filter out unwanted bookmarks.

When you tag a bookmark,
by default Bookmark Tags automatically organizes your
bookmarks tree by creating folders that correspond to the tags
-- one folder for each tag,
with all the bookmarks tagged by a tag under the corresponding folder.

But Bookmark Tags is flexible.
You can customize it so that as many paths to a bookmark
are created as there are permutations of its tags.

Or if none of that suits you,
you can turn off automatic organization altogether
and pick folders yourself, like usual.

This extension was developed for two reasons:
to bring local (anti-social?) bookmark tagging to Firefox,
and to organize tagged bookmarks within the bookmarks hierarchy
in a way that makes sense.

Bookmark Tags 0.2 introduces the tag browser window and sidebar,
which allow browsing by tags outside of the hierarchical bookmarks tree.

Bookmark Tags is highly customizable,
so please see its homepage, listed below,
for more information and a user's guide.

Extension Details

* Category: Bookmarks
* Last Updated: August 26, 2005 9:38:24am
* Total Downloads: 10699 — Downloads this Week: 683
* See all previous releases of this extension.
* View the Author's homepage for this extension

B-)
Hope that helps!

[ThingsGottaChange]

7. I think

you can export the bookmarks to a file, send it via email or floppy to the other computer, then import those bookmarks from that file. You'd have to do it back to the other computer so both would have all the bookmarks. Then just go to Bookmark Manager and remove whichever ones you don't want.

Disclaimer: I don't actually know if this works. But, it makes sense to me!

[pokerfan]

8. Extension to merge bookmarks

Bookmarks Synchronizer is a Mozilla Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Setup is easy; just write in your FTP server address, username, password and a name for the XML file (by default called xbel.xml).

To start, press Upload to create the file on the server and set if you want to automatically download the file on startup or upload it when you close your browser. Allows one to merge bookmarks files. (eg between desktop and laptop)

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=15